Improvement in egg-carriers



UNITEDSTATES PATENT @Friet 8500., OF`SAME PLAGE.

'.IM'PRovEMl-:NT IN EGG-CARRiERs.

`Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 173,826, datedFebruary 22, 181e; application ined 'June 12, 1875.

To all whom it may concern;

, Be it known that I, JOHN L. S'LEVENS,`of Chicago, in the county ofCook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Egg-Carriers, ofwhich improvement the following is a full, clear, andexact description, which will enable others skilled in the art to whichmy invention appertains to make and use the said improvement,referencebeing had tothe accompanying'drawing,

forming a part hereof, and in which- Flgure l is atop or pian view of aseries of leggLseparating compartments, embodying my invention Fig. 2, aside elevation o f one side thereof; and Fig. 3, an elevation of anotherthe eggsduring transportation.

Herctofore the egg separating compartments have been made of strips ot'straw-board or other similar or suitable material, notched or cut insuch a manner that a series of strips would be so interlaced as to alllie in the same plane. An example of egg-carriers thus constructed isshown and described in Letters` Patent No. 62,378, for improvements ineggcarriers, issued to myself and George W. Stevens, jointly, `the 26thday ot' February, 1867. These strips have subsequently beeninterlockedin various ways, so that in seizing anyone or more, for thepurpose of removing` the tiers of compartments, no stripwould be liableto be detached. These strips have also since' been arranged so as tosupport the eggs independently of the diaphragms above re- The object ofthis invention is to so improve the construction shown and described inthe Letters Patent hereinabove referred to as to prevent the accidentaldetachment ofthe strips from the case. i

In the drawing, A represents a long narrow -strip made, preferably, ofstraw-board. This strip, when 4standing vertically on one ot' itslongitudinaledges, exceedsa little in height the longer diameter of Lahens egg. ot a are notches or cuts sunken into one ot' the longitudinaledges of the-strip, and extending about halfway across it. a ct are likenotches or cuts sunken into the opposite edge of the strip, and arrangednear the ends. The distance between each of the cuts is about equal tothe shorter diameter of an egg.-

B is also a strip, the same in material and size as the strip A, and c eare cuts or notches, sunken. about half-wayacross itfrom one of itslongitudinal edges, and c e are like cuts sunken into its opposite edge.The notches e 'and c alternate with each other ,as shown, and. are thesame distance apartas the notches a a.

In order to construct the compartments, I arrangea `number of strips,"`AA, parallelly, as represented, each alternate strip ot' this se rieshaving the notches t a arranged downward, and each other alternate onehaving them 'arranged upward, thus also alternating the position of thenotches a' a. I then arrange anumber of strips, B B, paralleli y to eachother, and transversely with relation to the strips A A, andso that thenotches c and e' will receive the latter strips and the notches a. anda.' receivethe strips B B, thus allowing each series to nterlace theother, and both to occupy the same plane.

When constructed and arranged in. this manner, the strips ibrming thecompartments are firmly locked together, so that none of them will beliable to be drawn from the series accidentally while the compartmentsare being The strips, however, lnay be detached from each other whendesirable. The compartments are capable of bcingfolded compactly, andare intended to be used in connection with separating diaphragms in theusual manner.

I am aware that compartments of .this class have heretofore been soconstructed as to preduring the act of removing-the compartments removedfrom the case, or at any other time.

v ent the accidental separation of' the strips from the series to whichthey belong, and I do not lhere'clain'l such, broadly; but,

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

lThe series of egg-separating compartments, consisting` of the strips AA, having in one longitudinal edge the notches or cuts a a,

and in the opposite edge, near each end, the

notches or .cuts a a/and of' thel strips B B, having Vthe notches orcuts ee in one longitud'- inal edge, alternating with the notches' e ein the other, all combined and arranged substantially as shown anddescribed and' for the purposes 'set forth.

JOHN L. STEVENS. -Witnesses N. C. GRIDLEY, F. F. WARNER.

